The original album cover.
Last year, I posted three tracks from Eric Weber’s unintentionally
hilarious 1970’s self-help album, Picking Up Girls Made Easy. I
recently stumbled across a single MP3 file of the entire album!
From the back cover of the original album.
Here it is, [...]
Over
at the wedding blog, I offer a song to Wendy in the “East
meets West” spirit of our upcoming wedding: dekha ab
to [4.9MB MP3], a Bollywood
treatment of the Beatles’ tune I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
dekha ab to is performed by Mohamed Rafi and Asha Bhosle, names [...]
I noticed that I have a number of mostly-finished entries, some of
which are very old, sitting in a directory on my computer called “Blog
Drafts”. I thought I’d do a little “cleaning house” by polishing off
those entries and posting them under the title “Lost Conversations”.
The first one took [...]
Wendy was interviewed by odd/clever/Eggers-esque humour site Timothy McSweeney’s about an unusual job she had, and it’s now online: Screaming at the Dentist with Wendy K.
It’s quite simple:
WWWD? (What Would Wendy Do?)
She’s been doing this sort of thing for much longer than I have, and
for much bigger shindigs. Luckily for me, I was paying attention.
One might think that I’d have been busy replying to comments from
Friday’s popular post. However, I was in Boston for the long weekend
(the first Monday of August is the “Civic Holiday” in Canada) to be on
hand for this event:
Wendy wrote up the event in this [...]
My lovely fiancee is in town this weekend, but the opportunity to catch
up with friends may not arise this visit. There’s a fair bit of family
stuff to do this weekend, including a fund-raiser for the Filipino
Centre that’s doubling as a birthday party for my parents tomorrow
night, and [...]
It’s not quite the six-word novel that Hemingway supposedly wrote to win a bar bet (it’s supposed to have gone “For
sale: baby shoes. Never used.“), but this Craigslist personal ad in the
“missed connections” section still says so much using so little:
You…being shoved in the back of a squad car… - m4w [...]
(No, this article isn’t about same-sex marriage in Canada. The next one is.)
As you may recall, I mentioned that I was trashing the old love letters from my exes as part of a “housekeeping of the self” exercise. A couple of readers commented that chucking the old stuff might be something I regret [...]
As the last remaining occupant of my house, a place that has seen many housemates come and go — my sister and brother-in law, Dan, Paul, Kenji, Samantha and finally Robertson — the responsibility of cleaning up any junk left behind by the other occupants has fallen to Yours Truly.
Among the left-behind junk:
Some [...]
Even though I am retiring from dating at the top of my game, I still
find articles on the topic fascinating. So does Richard over at Just a
Gwai Lo, who found a New York Times article titled The Girls from Impanema are Not Impressed.
In the article, three young women who’ve [...]
…is to get a nickname that ends with “Guy”.
Being the Accordion Guy has worked for me, and having a “Guy” moniker has worked for others, as this Toronto Craigslist posting shows:
Dear Portuguese Chicken Guy,
I hear that you are a Jehovah’s Witness and that you attend Kingdom Hall once a week. While [...]
I’ve referred you to Human Events Online’s list of the “most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries”. I’ve also referred you to the counter-list posted on the blog Ghost of a Flea, which lists what the Flea considers to be the most helpful books of the past 200 years. For the record, I [...]
Wedding planning can sometimes be stress-inducing, but remember: one of the alternatives is…this!
As my future in-laws would say: Oy!
[via Just a Gwai Lo] Food for thought from an article in the blog called The Cake Eater Chronicles titled Lonely or Broken?
How many people do you know who seem to have a serious attachment to
being lonely? They’ve made loneliness into their mate and they talk
about loneliness the way some women [...]
Patrick Lee pointed me to this Nerve story (some of the ads on the page might not be safe for work): Sex Advice from Accordion Players!
My only complaint about the article is that they didn’t invite me to contribute!
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
